Ignacy Daszynski

Ignacy Daszynski (26 October 1866-31 October 1936) was Prime Minister of Poland from 6 to 14 November 1918, preceding Jedrzej Moraczewski. He was a member of the Polish Socialist Party.

Biography
Ignacy Daszynski was born in Zbaraz, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary in 1866 to a Catholic Polish family. Daszynski became a socialist student activist before co-founding the Polish Socialist Party in October 1892, and he served in the Austrian Parliament from 1897 to 1918. From 1903, he took part in several international socialist conferences, and he advocated for the independence and reunification of all former Polish territories. In 1912, he began a long collaboration with the Polish independence leader Jozef Pilsudski, and he became editor-in-chief of the Naprzod newspaper in Krakow. Following World War I, he founded the Polish National Committee, and he briefly served as Prime Minister of Poland from 6 to 14 November 1918. He would then go on to serve in the Sejm for much of the 1920s, and he served as Marshal of the Sejm from 1928 to 1930. Though he supported his friend Pilsudski's 1926 coup, he later joined the center-left opposition in opposing him. His political career ended in 1930 when Pilsudski dissolved the Sejm.